Seafood
Smoked Trout and Roasted Pepper Toasts
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Asian Bow-Tie Pasta Salad with Shrimp and Vegetables
If you have leftover cooked chicken or turkey on hand, use it instead of the shrimp.
Fusilli with Shrimp and Paneed Chicken
The term panéed means "panfried" in the New Orleans culinary lexicon. This recipe is from that city's Gabrielle Restaurant.
Open Shrimp Ravioli with Lime Ginger Butter
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Golden Fish Sticks
We recommend french fries and a watercress and pickled beet salad as accompaniments; try chocolate cupcakes for dessert.
Swordfish Steaks with Lemon-Parsley Sauce
Table salt works fine here, but teaming sea salt with fleur de sel adds a refined touch.
Salmon Hash
At breakfast time, the hash is topped with poached eggs; on the bistro menu, it is served with crème fraîche.
Steamed Mussels with Tomatoes and Garlic Toasts
To debeard the mussels, just pull off the hairlike bits coming out of the shell.
Grilled Tuna and Mango Salad
A colorful, delicious dish from Lantana's Restaurant, Grand Cayman, West Indies.
Linguine and Clams in Ginger-Soy Broth
The juices from the clams combine with spicy Asian flavors to make a great pasta sauce.
Caesar Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing
Roasting the garlic for the dressing sweetens it and softens its pungency. By the way, our interpretation of this salad did omit one traditional element—there is no raw egg in it, in keeping with modern health concerns.
Rice-Stick Noodle Salad with Vietnamese Shrimp
Some cooks may prefer to substitute more readily available angel's-hair pasta for the rice noodles called for in this recipe.